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	<title><![CDATA[Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/why-dont-poems-rhyme-anym_b_97489.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The Queen's English Society may sound like the name of a Monty Python sketch, but I assure you it's very real. The group aims to protect "the beauty and precision of the English Language," and it's currently up in arms about supposed poems that--egad!--have no rhyme or meter. </p>

<p>The President of the QES, a man named Michael George Gibson (it may be a QES requirement to use three names), recently told the British newspaper <em>The Guardian</em>, "For centuries word-things, called...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-04-28T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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